Albums: The Weeknd, 'House of Balloons'

The Weeknd's Tumblr

The other Tumblr act to come out of nowhere to clog up your dashboard, The Weeknd, nee Abel Tesfaye, was the antithesis of Odd Future: self-assured where OFWGKTA was sloppy, provocative instead of offensive, inventive not gimmicky. "House of Balloons," the first of his trilogy, is a seriously pervy Canadian mixtape that sounds so classy it begs to belong in an Alan Rudolph movie starring Julie Christie. Its that subtlety that makes it transgressive. --E.M.

The other Tumblr act to come out of nowhere to clog up your dashboard, The Weeknd, nee Abel Tesfaye, was the antithesis of Odd Future: self-assured where OFWGKTA was sloppy, provocative instead of offensive, inventive not gimmicky. "House of Balloons," the first of his trilogy, is a seriously pervy Canadian mixtape that sounds so classy it begs to belong in an Alan Rudolph movie starring Julie Christie. Its that subtlety that makes it transgressive. --E.M. (The Weeknd's Tumblr)

The other Tumblr act to come out of nowhere to clog up your dashboard, The Weeknd, nee Abel Tesfaye, was the antithesis of Odd Future: self-assured where OFWGKTA was sloppy, provocative instead of offensive, inventive not gimmicky. "House of Balloons," the first of his trilogy, is a seriously pervy Canadian mixtape that sounds so classy it begs to belong in an Alan Rudolph movie starring Julie Christie. Its that subtlety that makes it transgressive. --E.M.